Orphans Cemetery

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Albert G Williamson, a Dodge County entrepreneur, donated land for a burial place in Orphans community following the death of a neighbors child, George P A Barnes in 1887. The community was named in honor of the six orphaned Williamson brothers who moved her in 1873-4 from North Carolina. The earliest burials were children of the Thomas, Weldy and Lashley families. Other common names in the original acre are Hardy, Manley, Steele, Stuckey and Williamson. The statuary above their mausoleum depicts A F and Martha Buchan Williamson and their nephew Jay Gould. 

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